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Sadly not a sexy Russian sleeper agent who knows that loose lips sink ships and so keeps hers pumped full of collagen, Salt is a Covent Garden "espresso, lunch & tea bar" that prepares its offerings with alluring, though somewhat terrifying meticulousness in deceptively spacious digs that open up at the back into white-walled rooms decked with wood floors & furnishings upcycled from building sites, offcuts, and pallet crates.

Patriotically taking their cuppas as seriously as their coffees, they've got two fine-tuned water boilers brewing up loose leaves to specific times & temperatures, from China's Breakfast (a long & hot five mins @ 95˚C), to their more moderate Dragon Well (a mere three mins @ 75˚), to South African ginger & lime (four mins, 95˚), to traditional Darjeeling 1st Flush, an 85˚ job whose three mins is about how long it traditionally takes before your own.

They do coffee too, of course, with rotating beans from the likes of Monmouth, and a house blend from Bethnal Green's Square Mile, who they say are "generally regarded as the best roasters in the UK", a boast sure to be cruelly mocked by Jimmy Carr.

As for lunch, they're attached to a co-owned artisanal bakery, and have also installed an oven behind the bar itself to get the freshest sourdough for the likes of rare beef w/ porcini & truffle cream, four-hr roast shoulder of lamb w/ mint salsa, and grilled chorizo slathered with homemade aioli -- all in all, delicious recipes that, unlike certain seasoning-based film plots, aren't so convoluted you can't digest them.

Sadly not a sexy Russian sleeper agent who knows that loose lips sink ships and so keeps hers pumped full of collagen, Salt is a Covent Garden "espresso, lunch & tea bar" that prepares its offerings with alluring, though somewhat terrifying meticulousness in deceptively spacious digs that open up at the back into white-walled rooms decked with wood floors & furnishings upcycled from building sites, offcuts, and pallet crates.